Connecting IPX Servers Despite Linux Firewall

We needed to connect two NW51 servers using a leased line, under IPX protocol using Cisco 1700 routers. The IP routing wasn't useful because a Linux firewall stopped the clean networking traffic.

Solution

See the IPX address of the servers. At the router console run:

Router#configure terminalRouter(config)#ipx routing 0002.b9a5.be8e (example for our server, each router must have different server address)Router# interface fastethernet0 (select the eth of the router to configure)Router(config-if)# ipx network ABP627 (the Novell NIC IPX address. When connecting to the other router put the respective address.)